Subject:

Lionel Hampton

  • Blogs

    April 3, 2012

    Anthony Wilson, Guitar Pinup, Begins Monthlong Residency at the Blue Whale Tomorrow

    Guitarist and L.A. native Anthony Wilson has been a part of the jazz scene since his birth. His 93-year-old father, bandleader/raconteur/legend Gerald Wilson, started swinging before World War II and hasn't stopped, but the younger Wilson grew up in a musical landscape as indebted to Peter Frampton ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 21, 2011

    Pictures Of Jazz Players With Presidents!

    Duke Ellington and Richard Nixon spend some QT​By Sean J. O'Connell Sonny Rollins is one of the greatest living jazz musicians. Since his first recording session with trombonist J.J. Johnson in 1949, he has relentlessly dedicated himself to discovering the limits of the honking beast. This Th ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 19, 2011

    R.I.P. Gil Bernal; Los Angeles Tenor Sax Great is Dead

    ​Obituary by Jonny Whiteside Tenor sax veteran Gil Bernal died on Sunday of congestive heart failure. He was 80. Bernal was an incomparable Los Angeles jazz musician who began his professional career with swing kingpin Lionel Hampton in 1950, and played and collaborated with everyone from Ray ... More >>

  • Music

    December 17, 2009

    It Came From Spanish Harlem

    N.Y. transplant Coati Mundi has been a Buzzard and a Coconut. Now he’s just himself

  • Music

    September 10, 2009

    Brick’s Picks: Hang On, Snooky

    N.Y. transplant Coati Mundi has been a Buzzard and a Coconut. Now he’s just himself

  • Music

    January 11, 2007

    Along Came Benny

    Benny Golson at the Jazz Bakery and more jazz picks

  • News

    April 20, 2006

    Sitting Bull

    Dennis Justice

  • Art+Books

    April 6, 2006

    The Arkivists

    Unearthing the treasure of Horace Tapscott, musical phantom of South L.A.

  • Music

    June 3, 2004

    Back to the Bass

    Unearthing the treasure of Horace Tapscott, musical phantom of South L.A.

  • Music

    March 22, 2001

    A Home, Grown

    Unearthing the treasure of Horace Tapscott, musical phantom of South L.A.

  • Music

    September 16, 1999

    'Don't Like Vanilla'

    The many flavors of Central Avenue Sounds

  • Music

    July 1, 1999

    Juke Joint Jive

    Jimmie Maddin on the L.A. scene circa the '40s & '50s

  • Music

    March 4, 1999

    Dirt and Sky

    Honk if you love Horace Tapscott

  • Music

    July 23, 1998

    Honk if You're Hungry

    Honk if you love Horace Tapscott

  • Music

    March 19, 1998

    Jazz Central

    Oral history from a vanished Los Angeles

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